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• ‘Ravi sat back on the harsh edge of the tub, deciding to hold out a bit longer. What fun if they were all found and caught...he alone left unconquered!"

  imagery, internal conflict, metaphor
• ‘he bust through the crack, fell on his knees, got up and stumbled on stiff, benumbed legs’  

  imagery, alliteration
• ‘he had been forgotten, left out and he would not join them now’

  repetition
• ‘it took them a minute to grasp what he was saying, even who he was’

  irony
• ‘the motherly Mira intervened’ 

  alliteration, personification, short sentences
• ‘make a circle, make a circle!’ while ‘firmly pulling and pushing till a kind of vague circle was formed.’

  repetition, imagery
•  ‘it was intolerable. Intolerable, all of it ... except, only for the seventy-five rupees paid at the end of the month.’

  repetition, irony
• ‘longed passionately to listen to them...but to do this he would have to...

  hurl the Brahmin’s son down the iron stairs.’
• ‘glanced at him, pretended not to care, pursed her lips to keep from giggling.’

  Irony, hyperbole
• "'Go, go,' she warned! 'I hear the next one coming.'"

  exclamation mark
• ‘went there daily, for the whole day and soon he got to know it as well as his own room’ 
• ‘books seemed to be attached to his hands as though by roots, they were a part of him’

  simile, metaphor
• ‘cuts and fries, cuts and fries. All day I hear her chopping and slicing and the pan of oil hissing.’

  repetition, onomatopoeia
• "Suno, drink your milk. Good for you, Suno ... must have it, Suno. Drink."

  repetition